Examines the meaning of work for older adults in a sample of 146 older job seekers. Proposes four factors to the meaning of work: financial, personal, social, and generativity. Indicates ethnic and employment differences regarding the meaning of work. Jobs providing opportunities for transfer of knowledge and experience to younger generations may…

Examines the home care situation of urban chronically ill men and women and their caregivers in China. Findings reveal that women serve as caregivers in the majority of the cases and often are elderly spouses with health problems of their own. Physical, social, psychological, and financial problems experienced by these patients create an enormous…

The political and social development of the Medicare Hospice Benefit combines humanitarian and cost-saving strategies. Although it mainstreamed care of the terminally ill and provided multiple services, four major constraints of the benefit package are identified and explored. It is important that we analyze this policy before we devise new ways…

Presents findings from a mail survey of 414 persons regarding organ transplantation and donation policy issues. Gauged three measures of support for organ donation: donor card commitment, required request of next-of-kin support, and weak presumed consent support. High levels of support exist for organ donor cards and the next-of-kin law. Little…

Examines attitudes toward life and death, alone and in combination with life events, to determine suicide risk for young adults. Used the Multi-Attitude Suicide Tendency Scale for Adolescents, Life and Death Attitudes Scale, Suicidal Behaviors Questionnaire, Death Anxiety Scale, and Life Experiences Survey to measure responses of 140 young adults…

Uses 2 instruments to compare 20 people who experienced the death of a parent between ages 12 and 18 with 22 people whose parents had not divorced, separated, or died. Higher correlations between threat as measured by these two instruments were found for the control group than the death-loss group alone. Theoretical and methodological issues are…

Describes a student-participatory death education course offered at a small private liberal arts university. As active participants, students collaborated in the design of course content and requirements that reflected their interests and concerns. Overall, students responded positively to their involvement in the learning process. Outlines course…

Provides an overview of the health care reform context in order to explore the emerging role for psychologists in the delivery of health and mental health services to children in the school setting. Discusses current trends and introduces the articles that constitute the special theme issue on school psychology and health care. (JPS)

Describes the unmet health and mental health needs of children and youth, particularly the needs of disadvantaged youth. Explores existing models of the school as a health care services delivery setting, and describes the implications for the practice of psychology in schools for the future. (JPS)

Argues that psychologists trained in both school and clinical psychology are needed to help develop and implement emerging school-based and school-linked health and mental health service delivery models. These psychologists are also needed to provide direct and indirect services and to enhance educational outcomes and decrease school failure and…

Explores issues related to the expanding role of school psychologists in the delivery of school health care services. Licensing, credentialing, and federal and state legislation will complicate legal, professional, and ethical issues relating to integrated services. The funding mechanisms established to support a reformed American health care…

The field of school psychology has the potential to make important contributions to health care in light of the central educational elements of psychotherapy and major health crises. Given that some form of health care reform is imminent, school psychologists now have a unique opportunity to realize long-standing agendas for role expansion and…

Examines the relationship between psychopharmocological-related experiences and attitudes toward expanding roles for school psychologists. Profiles the results of a 1993 national survey of school psychologists who are members of the American Psychological Association regarding the appropriateness of expanding the school psychologists' role to drug…

Explores the argumentation of critical rhetoric as a millennial appeal, a rhetorical device aimed at establishing a new world with subsequent need for a new critical orientation. Argues that the advocates of critical rhetoric characteristically use dissociation as their primary rhetorical strategy. Concludes that M. Bakhtin's concept of…

Examines an exchange in a journal between critical legal scholar Richard Fischl and mainstream legal thinker Calvin Massey. States that their argument typifies the sorts of disputes between scholars who perform deconstructions and more traditional scholars. Concludes that the power of argument may reside in its dialectical function, and that…